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July 12, 2015

A major Dickensian discovery

Book dealer Dr. Jeremy Parrott has discovered a bound collection of All the Year Round with annotations that, according to leading scholars, are "almost certainly" by Dickens himself, identifying the authors of all the anonymous pieces that were published in the magazine. Among these writers are Elizabeth Gaskell, Lewis Carroll, and Wilkie Collins. Said BBC financial broadcaster Paul Lewis: "This is the Rosetta Stone of Victorian studies because it gives you the key to what hundreds of people wrote. When this list emerges it will change Victorian scholarship.”